There were they in great fear, namely, at the time when the thunder of Jehovah's wrath hurls them down, they cringe and cower in terror when His judgment approaches; for God is in the generation of the righteous, He protects and governs His children and brings about their complete victory over their enemies. The attitude of the unbelievers at such a time is the same as that of the Egyptians when the Lord troubled them, Exodus 14:24.
Verse Psalms 14:5. _THERE WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR_] This is a manifest allusion to the history of the _Canaanitish nations_; they were struck with terror at the sight of the Israelites, and by this a...
THERE WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR - Margin, as in Hebrew, “they feared a fear.” The idea is, that they were in great terror or consternation. They were not calm in their belief that there was no God. They...
Psalms 14 _ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_ 2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7) Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shal
PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text presen...
WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. Hebrew they feared. fear. GENERATION. circle. Hebrew. _dor,_ company, or class. RIGHTEOUS. righteous man....
The corruption of men exemplified in their oppression of Jehovah's people. Its condign punishment....
This verse is commonly explained to refer to the future, the perfect tense expressing the certain assurance of the Psalmist that judgement will be executed. Cp. Psalms 36:12. But it is more natural to...
HAVE ALL THE WORKERS &C.— _Do they not observe, all the dealers in vanity, devourers of my people? They eat bread, they called not upon the Lord:_ Psalms 14:5. _They were upon the spot, in a great fea...
PSALMS 14 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Vile Person's Testimony to Prevalent Wickedness, when confirmed by Jehovah, occasions Warning and Prayer. ANALYSIS Stanza I. (Psalms 14:1), An Impious Man revels in Wi...
_THERE WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR: FOR GOD IS IN THE GENERATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS._ There - in the very place of their sin, their punishment overtakes them. He points to them as though present. WERE THE...
This Ps., like Psalms 12, gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7, which some...
THERE WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR] a sudden mention of God's interference. Some historical event, like the destruction of Pharaoh's host, seems to be in the writer's mind....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
THERE WERE THEY. — Literally, _there they feared a fear, i.e.,_ terror overtook them. Psalms 53 adds, “which was no fear.” The local “there” brings the scene before us as in a picture. We see them _th...
שָׁ֤ם ׀ פָּ֣חֲדוּ פָ֑חַד כִּֽי ־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים בְּ...
Psalms 14:1 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1; Psalms 12:1. It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the former in its attribution to "the fool" of the heart spe...
THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries, _How long...
Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is r...
(d) There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous. (d) Where they think themselves most sure....
Usury. This was always blameable, though Moses tolerated it with respect to the Jews lending to the Chanaanites, Deuteronomy xxiii. 19., and Luke vi. 35. The Roman law condemned the guilty to pay doub...
The sad blindness of men's minds in their denying the existence of God, is here very strongly described; and the contradiction of such unbelief, as strongly pointed out in the fear of such a guilty mi...
5._There did they tremble with fear, _The prophet now encourages himself and all the faithful with the best of all consolations, namely, that God will not forsake his people even to the end, but will...
In Psalms 14 the evil has reached its climax in God's sight What is ever true of flesh is now brought up under God's eye at the time when He is going to judge. Man rises up in pride before Him: yea, H...
THERE WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR,.... This, shows that they had some knowledge of God, and consciousness of guilt, which they endeavoured to banish out of their minds by their fears of punishment; and th...
There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous. Ver. 5. _There were they in great fear_] There? and they? and in great fear? where? and who? and what kind of fear was...
_There were they in great fear_ In the place, or upon the spot where they practised these insolences: or, _then_, that is, in the height of their tyranny and prosperous impiety, when they seemed to ha...
THERE WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR: _ Heb._ they feared a fear...
THERE, i.e. in the place, or upon the spot, where they practised these insolences, God struck them with a panic fear. Or, _then_, i.e. in the height of their tyranny and prosperous impiety, when they...
Psalms 14:5 great H6343 fear H6342 (H8804) God H430 generation H1755 righteous H6662 were - etc. Heb. they feared a fear,...
‘Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who devour my people as they eat bread, And call not on YHWH? There were they in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous. You put...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late;...
CONTENTS: The corruption and foolishness of man. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Man in his natural state has become odious to God, utterly incapable of answering the ends of his creation, until...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool,_ the _Nabal,_ devoid of foresight, says, _there is no God;_ no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification of...
_The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ THE PRACTICAL DENIAL OF GOD THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and starts a train of thought whi...
_Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?_ CONSCIENCE I. Conscience informed. It is quite true that the workers of iniquity seem like brute beasts, as if they had no common sense, no conscienc...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:1. This is a community lament. Humans in general do not seek after God and thus they treat God’s people cruelly. Compare Psalms 53:1.
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:5 In the face of such threats (v. Psalms 14:4) the faithful must remember that the God of the covenant (LORD) is th
INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may,...
EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De We...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if...
1 Peter 2:9; Esther 8:7; Exodus 15:16; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 41:10;...
There — Upon the spot, where they practised these insolences, God struck them with a panick fear. For — God is on their side, and therefore their enemies have cause to tremble....